ICANN Responds to GAC

[Andrew A. Adams]

It really does strike me as utterly bizarre that GAC is suggesting that
governments not be liable to pay any fees when they raise an objection to a
gTLD proposal. There are costs involved in the processing of such objections
and while efforts need to be made to try and ensure that objection fees are
not ridiculous (as I believe the fees proposed for arranging a new gTLD
already are) the claim that governments should be able to object across the
board and not pay any of the costs of of ICANN in processing such objections
seems very strange.

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Professor Andrew A Adams                      aaa at meiji.ac.jp
Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and
Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan       http://www.a-cubed.info/